1br0wn

1br0wn, 1 day ago to generativeAI

🇬🇧 minister wants to create a “framework or policy” around #GenerativeAI model training transparency but noted “very complex international problems that are fast moving”. She said the UK needed to ensure it had “a very dynamic regulatory environment”. https://on.ft.com/3ULCFn1

1br0wn, 1 day ago to Russia

“This is #Putin’s new imperium: a militarised authoritarian #Russia looking to wage a global political, diplomatic and economic war on the West, even as it seeks to grind down resistance in #Ukraine.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/4244156d-1a58-4fe9-956e-84e8b37cb114?shareToken=b9c42db753e4be6fa30105e5757370c6

1br0wn, 3 days ago to OpenAI

‘#OpenAI has struck a deal with #Reddit to use content from the social media platform for its artificial intelligence chatbot, sending shares in the company up as much as 15 per cent in after-hours trading.’
https://on.ft.com/44NGYmn

1br0wn, 4 days ago to random

‘the Magnificent Seven AI-obsessed US tech companies spent $200bn on research and development last year — about half the total equivalent public and private sector spending in Europe. US start-ups also attracted 73% of the $42.5bn invested globally in the AI sector last year, according to data firm CB Insights. In such a US-dominated world, Britain is at risk of becoming little more than a research offshoot.’
https://on.ft.com/3QOGozc

1br0wn, 4 days ago to ai

“In their rush to fill rural America with vast, windowless data centres, US tech companies are taking a capital intensive bet on #AI. If that does not pay off, the rise in investment could drag on profit margins for years.” https://www.ft.com/content/f8e4dac5-5869-4db9-b4ba-1398408e3962

1br0wn, 4 days ago to random

'The central contradiction of American communism – one that defined it from its founding in the aftermath of the Bolshevik revolution to its essential demise with the end of the Soviet Union 70-odd years later – was, as I write in Reds, that it “attracted egalitarian idealists, and it bred authoritarian zealots”. Some clung longer to their idealism and resisted the authoritarian temptation better than others, but only at the price of concealing their true feelings.' https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/16/american-communism-history

1br0wn, 6 days ago to random

“Doing better means resisting the siren call of one-to-one marketing. Until we jettison that fantasy, all of our industry’s brain power and financial investments will do nothing more than recreate surveillance capitalism, ultimately leading us back to the place we currently find ourselves: facing any citizens and governments demanding that we stop abusing privacy.” 🎯
https://techpolicy.social/@mnot/112438267275173799

NTusikov, 7 days ago to random

New from me: Menstruation-tracking apps leak users' #data to advertisers & law enforcement, especially post-Roe v. Wade in the US. To address these apps, I recommend data decommodification, which requires data be collected only to provide the service (ie., period tracking) but not be repurposed toward other activities (like advertising). #surveillance

https://www.cigionline.org/articles/to-decommodify-the-data-economy-first-fix-data-sharing-period-tracking-apps/

1br0wn, 7 days ago to random

🇬🇧 “Demand [for business parks] has waned from occupiers because they need to go back into towns and city centres in order to compete for the employees,” the boss of one commercial property group said. “People don’t want to work in business parks. They want [to work] somewhere they’ll have a choice of Itsu or Pret or Starbucks.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/5f5113b2-b99b-4223-ab4f-87402bf7e86c?shareToken=e9411aee27a953baecfd3fc092893ff3

1br0wn, 7 days ago to microsoft

‘Rivals are concerned that #Microsoft will make #Teams run more compatibly with its own software over other apps. They also argue that Microsoft has set the pricing of its own products in ways that give little incentive for users to choose other videoconferencing options. Another concern is the lack of data #portability, which makes it difficult for existing Teams users to switch to alternatives.’
https://on.ft.com/4bzlD2p

1br0wn, 8 days ago to random

“Apple is no longer making iconic products that are trying to find their place in our lives through clever messaging,” investor Om Malik wrote. “When you are as large as Apple . . . mediocrity of action creeps into every aspect of your business.”
https://on.ft.com/4byK1RC

1br0wn, 8 days ago to apple

‘British newspaper groups have warned #Apple that any move to impose a so-called “web eraser” tool to block advertisements would put the financial sustainability of journalism at risk.

‘Apple is preparing to include an AI-based #privacy feature in the #Safari browser in the next #iOS 18 software update that will remove ads or other unwanted website content, according to reports.’
https://on.ft.com/4be4E5Y

1br0wn, 8 days ago to TeslaMotors

‘X has attacked “takedown” requests in Brazil, India and Australia in recent weeks, after authorities demanded the removal of content on the site they deem as illegal or harmful.

‘Its owner, a self-proclaimed free speech absolutist, has gone further, labelling Brazil’s supreme court judge Alexandre de Moraes a “dictator” and Australia’s eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant, a former Twitter employee, a “censorship commissar”.’ #Musk #SpaceKaren https://www.ft.com/content/bedde085-f762-44c9-8a0a-1cf81e69a19a

1br0wn, 10 days ago to random

‘British broadcasters have warned that terrestrial television is in danger of becoming economically unviable as more people opt to watch online, according to a UK government-commissioned report about the future of TV.’ https://www.ft.com/content/0bb4f0a2-c31d-4479-b268-b84dc88fc341

1br0wn, 10 days ago to ai

‘The idea of #AI wearables is not new. Enough time may have passed for Silicon Valley to forget the debacle of Google #Glass, the AI-powered headset that the search company launched in 2013 but largely abandoned just two years later. But the reaction to #Humane will only fuel suspicion that the latest attempts to reboot Glass are just another manifestation of an AI funding bubble.’ https://www.ft.com/content/ccec597d-11bb-4105-858f-78580d4331a1

1br0wn, 10 days ago to random

‘The cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida recently approved landmark legislation aimed at preventing the largest online platforms from using their dominance in mobile software to thwart the entry of new rivals.

‘The rules — a narrower version of the EU’s sweeping Digital Markets Act — seek to offer more choices for consumers, such as by making it easier to switch between mobile operating systems and allowing users to download apps from other sources.’
https://on.ft.com/4ajcSbA

DanielRThomas, 10 days ago to random

I now have an official work S/MIME certificate for signing my email :-) (and digitally signing documents). Possibly one of only 2 or 3 people across the uni with this (I needed it to sign a letter for someone from a country where digital signatures on documents are normal). #SMIME #EmailSecurity #Certificate

1br0wn, 10 days ago to random

Really ironic to hear this from Jobs, when sadly the company he built then rejuvenated has become a monopoly no longer focused on customers or product improvement 🤷🏻‍♂️
https://chaos.social/@obrhoff/112369907442905273

nysmill, 11 days ago to Signal French

Aucune nouvelle de l'intéropérabilité entre #whatsapp et #signal ?

#dma #Europe

1br0wn, 11 days ago to random

‘the adoption of 🇺🇸 #ChipsAct in 2022, which provided $39bn of grant incentives to support the semiconductor industry, had primed a torrent of private sector investment. An additional $447bn of investment has since been announced in 83 separate projects across 25 states. The report forecasts that the US will now increase its share of global manufacturing capacity for leading edge chips (below 10 nanometres) to 28% of the total by 2032 from 0% today.’ https://www.ft.com/content/0d39e8f0-38ba-40aa-8ec8-d04e82afb690

mikarv, 12 days ago to random

absolute chaos on a new unmoderated listserv this week as tens of people used the ‘thumbs up’ feature in outlook, which apparently now sends an email, causing an unstoppable torrent

1br0wn, 12 days ago to meta

‘#Meta’s ad tools are formidable, for everyone from your neighbourhood takeaway to multinational giants, and it’s a mammoth effort to stop the gap from widening further. It’s too soon to say whether #Snap’s efforts to close it will be successful – but it’s the things hidden from the normal users, as much as anything they can see on their phones, that will decide the next decade for the company.’ #Facebook #Snapchat https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/07/techscape-newsletter-snapchat